The Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics: Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum

ISBN-13: 9780415566124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 486 str.

Janet C Marstine

Opis

Recent social, economic, political, and technological shifts have presented novel ethical challenges and opportunities across all areas of museum activity. This book will elucidate contemporary museum ethics, providing a resource to students, researchers and museum professionals worldwide who are grappling with these matters.

Recenzje

"...an excellent record of ethical thinking and theory in the early 21st century." Vanessa Trevelyan, President of the Museums Association

"This important book brings together leading thinkers who take museum ethics beyond the policing of codes by specialists, to being the source, for the entire institution, of dynamic change, legitimacy and an enriched contribution to society...the authors present a vision of a holistic approach to ethics which transforms the museum's capacity to create value for society". Mark O'Neill, Head of Glasgow Museums 1998-2008

"This book is an indispensible resource for museum scholars and practitioners who want to re-fashion a more moral and humanistic foundation for museum practice. It posits that the truly ethical museum is a place of dialog and democracy that promotes social change." Marjorie Schwarzer, John F. Kennedy University

"This new Companion is remarkable. It offers museum professionals a chance to rethink the work they do from first principles, and it offers students, who may be its most important audience, a chance to understand the museum in its largest frame.... [It] offers philosophical guidance on making the museum, and society, a better place. Indeed, this volume does more than redefine ethics for the twenty-first century museum. It redefines the museum." Steven Lubar, Brown University 

Spis treści

Part One: Theorizing Museum Ethics  1. The Contingent Nature of the New Museum Ethics  2. The Art of Ethics: Theories and Applications to Museum Practice  3. GoodWork in Museums Today...and Tomorrow  4. Museums and the End of Materialism  5. Changing the Rules of the Road: Post-colonialism and the New Ethics of Museum Anthropology  6. "Aroha mai: Whose Museum?" The Rise of Indigenous Ethics within Museum Contexts: A Maori-tribal Perspective  7. The Responsibility of Representation: A Feminist Perspective  Part Two: Ethics, Activism and Social Responsibility  8. On Ethics, Activism and Human Rights  9. Collaboration, Contestation and Creative Conflict: On the Efficacy of Museum/Community Partnerships  10. An Experimental Approach to Strengthen the Role of Science Centers in the Governance of Science  11. Peering into the Bedroom: Restorative Justice at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum  12. Being Responsive to be Responsible: Museums and Audience Development  13. Ethics and Challenges of Museum Marketing  14. Memorial Museums and the Objectification of Suffering  Part Three: The Radical Potential of Museum Transparency  15. Cultural Equity in the Sustainable Museum  16. ‘Dance through the Minefield’: The Development of Practical Ethics for Repatriation  17. Visible Listening—Discussion, Debate and Governance in the Museum  18. Ethical, Entrepreneurial or Inappropriate? Business Practices in Museums  19. "Why is this here?": Art Museum Texts as Ethical Guides  20. Transfer Protocols: Museum Codes and Ethics in the New Digital Environment  21. Sharing Conservation Ethics, Practice and Decision-Making with Museum Visitors  Part Four: Visual Culture and the Performance of Museum Ethics  22. The Body in the (White) Box: Corporeal Ethics and Museum Representation  23. Towards an Ethics of Museum Architecture  24. Museum Censorship  25. Ethics of Confrontational Drama in Museums  26. Conservation Practice as Enacted Ethics  27. Bioart and Nanoart in a Museum Context: Terms of Engagement 

O autorze

Janet Marstine is Lecturer and Programme Director of Art Museum and Gallery Studies at the University of Leicester. Her research focuses on museum ethics and institutional critique. Marstine is the founder and former director of the Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University. She is editor of New Museum Theory and Practice: An Introduction (Blackwell, 2005).